Ethnography : a theoretically oriented practice /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Matera, Vincenzo (Editor), Biscaldi, Angela (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:	Ethnology. Ethnology > History. Ethnology > Research. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Theoretically Oriented Practice
Part I: Grounds for sociocultural anthropology: USA, UK, FR, IT
Chapter 2: Ethnography before ethnography. Genesis and developments of field research in North America
Chapter 3: Before and after Science: Radcliffe-Brown, British social anthropology and the problem of the relationship between fieldwork methods, ethnography and theory
Chapter 4: "Ethnography in France": Ethnographic practices and theories from Marcel Mauss to Marcel Griaule
Chapter 5: The Structural Formula of the Team. Reflections on the Ethnographic Method of Ernesto de Martino
Part II. Anthropology (Theory) vs Ethnography (Fieldwork)
Chapter 6: Illusion of immediate knowledge (immediacy) or spiritual exercise? The dialogic exchange and the Pierre Bourdieus ethnography
Chapter 7: "A conspiracy of silence": George Balandier and the study of African slavery and post-slavery
Chapter 8: The Bridge and the Dance: Situational Analysis in Anthropology
Chapter 9: Politics within Cultural and Social Anthropology
Chapter 10: Stumbling blocks. The irruption of the interpretive approach in twentieth century anthropology
Part III. Visual, Dialogical, Sensorial, Multi-sited ethnography
Chapter 11: The anthropologists eye: Ethnography, visual practices, images
Chapter 12: Dennis and Barbara Tedlock. The dialogic turn in anthropology
Chapter 13: Embodiment and Ethnography
Chapter 14: Exploring Mobility through Mobility. The Challenges of Multi-sited Ethnography from Marcus and Hannerz to nowadays
Part IV: Deconstructions
Chapter 15: Participant observation. The personal commitment in native life: A problematic methodological topos
Chapter 16: The Weberian line of anthropology: George E. Marcus from Writing Culture to Design
Chapter 17: Making the Invisible ethnography Visible. The peculiar relationship between Italian anthropology and feminism
Chapter 18: Beyond the field: literature, theory and ethnographic writing.